Figure 1

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of Leucobacter chironomi relative to the type strains of the other species within the genus Leucobacter. The sequence alignments were performed by using the CLUSTAL W program and the tree was generated using the maximum likelihood method in MEGA 5 software [41]. Bootstrap values (from 1,000 replicates) greater than 50% are shown at the branch points. The bar indicates a 1% sequence divergence.